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• ROYAL ACAD. MP. ' No. 89. A Portrait.-1; No ticbTt, it. A, • The Aitist has here given a Portrait of ;himselcii and besides a very exaCt and spirited likeness, has. produce 3 a very good Picture. ft is painted with boldness, with a line breadth-of light, and with great truth and clearness of colouring. No. 6a: The . - Fortuile..Tell,!r i with the Portrait of a Lady. W. 0 w R.A. We cannot speak much more-favnurably of this - Miture than in saying, that it is worthy of the Artist from whom it ,proceeded. He particularly excels, al we have betbro. observed, in the power of invest- Lag Portrait painting with something which ~auk- Ments its interest, and renders a Picture desirable to those who are unacquainted with ,the individuals Whom it may represent. Harmony and vivid co - - louring, with a bold,contrast of light and shade, ktrot: B ,ly recommend this Picture to the approbation , of criticistn. . - • No. 175. Portraits of the Children.of 1. Angerstein, Esq.- - T. La.witanca, This very interesting group of children- shews the -variety of expression which the Artist •is capable of displaying. 'We'haVe'often admired his representa tiou Of energy and dignity of Character, ,and here he • has exhibited the innocence, Simplicity, and. playful t'"4 of infancy ; with equal success: The children ;I. ° all 4 1 6 1 43140 d ty , tilt: unrefteaing gairrl of their POriod. The.whole is light, Elegant, rich, and Spirited. LAW 'REPORT. • 'COURT OF KING's BENCH. MAY V*. t PRISSTLEY V. kitIOUES. This was a question on the .Marriage A6t, namely, whether a natural child could legally marry under .• age by licence, with the cousent of the mother: It was argued by Mr. ()wax, and most elaborately by Mr. Serjeant Witt.hoas. On - the one side,/ it :vas contended that a bastard wasfitius nullius, and, legally, had no father or tnothpr ; b►.tc by IVIr: Ser ,, : • . jeaut WILLIAXS it sv,as contended, that thu rule - bnly Applied to inheritances. Sir WM. SCOTT has lately decide, that such a marriage' is illegal, although there is a contra deciSion -in . the Coutt of King's Bench. Tito Serje.,t►t expressed great . indignation at a Civi - ..' tan presuming to construe an Ate of Parliament - different from the . judges, who are the iegatexpo ..:. alters of the Statutes. The case stood over for 'the. future judgment (4i the Court. ' i‘7, ,!.,.; MAY 113. , . Tetvitzez FROM ASRZST. Mr: iltrattouou applied to the Court in beltilf of . . the Turkish Consul (Mr. Critieo), who; hp said, bad been held to bail in violation of the privilege extended to the confidential Agents of Foreign states. The objea of the motion was not to obtain, redress of grievance, but to ascertain whether per sons in Ins situation were entitled to, claim the „ Privile ge spoken of. Mr. Criticohad been appoint •Shal.• Pete!te iu !Lis eenntry hy. the . . Ottoman Brines or, in other words, Consul General in Great • • ; —tn. In that situation be had been held to bail a .several actions , and though it was true the Court Of COnimon Pleas had discharged him out of cus tody, Yet t h e quest i on o f privilege hadr not been decide, ft In the progreseof the Counsel's Address, ;, • c learly appeared that .Ciitico, the time of Alts arrests, had been suspended from his situation: l a the Turkish Government, and a person named , se A 1" "ni appointed in his stead, and adually living in this country ; upon which the . Court observed, that tkough the question of privilege frens arrests In the representatives of Foreign States, could bat , be treat e d with too much delicacy and eirclitospeee' tint), yet in the present instance, 'as the party ay.- peared to have been suspended from his situation teven months before the arrest complained of took Place, he w a s : not. su ffi c i ent l y i ntereste d to call upon the Court ire decide the question propounded. Mr. akierteven took nothing. by his motion, • WDGMENTS. Colonel 'Watson, convicted of using offensive3ae., wage to General Givyune, who had been. Rrptident. • of . a Court Martial, befoie which the ColoPel , was itnplicated, and for having endeavoured to.-provoke Lim to fialit a duel, w as b roug h t up to receive judg !tient, and was sentenced t o one year ' s imprisonoient l a the King's Bench Prison, and to enter into a rel.: F.O.gnizanne. in 2001. to ke e p t h e peace for two years: f4r. justice Geese said, that society would be in a 44tneutable state, if every Officer who gave. his ' llo a upon a Court Ma rt i a l w as C ompe ll e d to answer , for the same at the point of the sword. errD'Egville„ the Ballet 'Master of the ()pent 44 (441 es also received the judg me nt o f the C o urt for T !'aniting Mr. Waters, one of the Proprietors of the The case has already been reported. The' ',Pule or d ered him to pay a fine of . 101. which he did, and was discharged. oGoodridge, an Apothecary at Cranbourn, in butt ° 'setshire, also attended to receive sentence, having convicted . of assaulting . Mrs. Charlotte Miles, Nvho resides in the same town, by pinching her Rtrn, and pulling her on one side, in order to take the ;wall of her. Many affidavits were read, Which dis closed a va r i ety o f r idi cu l ous circumstances , to shew the ill-will that subsisted between the parties...lt.elso. appeared that, the town's people took part in the quer gel, and exhibited the Prosecutrix.in gy, filling u p on an ass, They also paraded before her door,. and cried out Goodridge for ever—and Madame auotiaparte in the river." The Defencleut, how . teeri had ,no concern in these transadions. . , • , • The Cou r t, a f ter hi nt i ng t h at t h e L a d y had bettet intercise -seme controul over her own cotelukl, and -I:2bserving upon the Defendant's having been haressecl, ttrorn prison- to prison, by her vexation, .ordered him PaY a fine of ts. and to enter into reeognizances. It? be ' • • • • - of• ( '09(1, behaviour tor the future. • . b, 4he case of the King v, Docid was not proeieded in. NEips. •-, • dRAVEVLID, MAY 22. !% ,11 )44e4 bY-.411e flara Anderspn, from Sturna4 *rid the "I'itth, I fiall ol.ahl. Silulecil, ttic•Ttro:nre . a Sin g lpbon for Gotter , burgb,i _Hai!. t uth• Davis for Cork ;Attive: ti,irr4s, to r . rosey 1 :-ler ,kie viva t•.. I , • 1.2 L,' uvans, swan, (imp, and the Cuunnan. Villilik*, ;or ilmfaitar, Ri4L PAR LifttiVElVT. wel c 'then abAv 0300 vtlters t WOgrOuntliecti and. Ford. Eventnitlinthe amendments were :igreed to, aft,' -th e HauseltaiFing been: resumed, the Report was rec._ ived, the Bill ordered to be printer' ) 010 to be fed on It4ot l 4aY nett. SrF..tcult reminded the Howie, that 'a'n tiec- Con- Ballot stood for. to-morrow ; he would I procLed to Count the. House•at„foux o'clock :On the' Motion of Sir A. WELLBSLEY,. tbe.Pa pers'kesociitig the Holyhead-Packets. were .referred to eCominitretrabove stairs, , , After a short -conversation between Mr. Sturges Bourne, Mr, Vibbert, Sir, H. Mild nay, and Mr. Shaw 4efevre f tDeane - and'he - Nevti:.- lore t• Bill was ordered to be printed,' and to be comtnitted on friday next. Sir W. iCl.7aTtsgave notice, that he should make a Motion on Wednesday respe&ing the appoint meat of Pilots by the Lord Warden - of the Cinque Ports,. Thi : Duchess of •Brunswick's Annuity Bill, and the • Military Commissiotiers" Bill, went through Committees, the RepOrts of which, were ordered. to be receives 10-morrow, EiOUSE OF PEERS. MONDAY, MAY 23. RO - A.TURGH PEERAGE CLAIM. Messrs. CLARKU;,,d ERIiKIE were heard at great length this day, in stkpport of the Appellants; fur ther. proceediog deferred till to-morrow. The Cork Duty, the Child' Stealing Bill, and se- veral private &its were brought up from the 'Com 'Mons, and read a first time.. ' - .The Report of the' Committee on the Banbury Peerage.'was postponed to Wednesday next. "'The Duke of NORFOLK then moved. that :Thane], Esq. one of tt)e King Heralds, be ordered to'iittend-the Attorney-General, at the Bar, on that day. The' Loan CHANCELLOR having suggested that. the' Usual 'mode Was- to address his Majesty*, the Noble Duke withdrew his motion, and gave notice Mat he would. move an Address to the King for that purpose on Wednesday. Lord SUFFOLK, seeing a Member of the Cabinet (Lord CAMDEN') in his place, wished to know whether it was the intention of Ministers to inform' the House, and the Public, how the,Droits orate Admiralty had:, been . applied. , He had asked this question '• before,' and now expelled an answer. Na reply was made. - Their Lordships went into a Committee on the Irish Glebe House Bill, which was- gone through pro forma, and ordered to be recommitted on Wed nesday, for the Purpose of" corretliug, in the in terinediate tikne, some errors pointed out by Lord Redesdale. \ • The Marriage Bill was also committed, and order.; ed to be reported on Wednesday. HIAND's VO WC E. SIR - HOME P,OpH4llf. . . _ . .. .. Mr. HosEissou stated,' that ~he had received a note from the ' Honourable Captain • who was the subjea 'of a motion, notice of which had been given for to4norrow, intimating that die would be unable to attend the House. Under these circnin- Amite, r., ke presumed, the motion would be deferred,' Mrs PoNsoN_sy, in the absence of his Honourable Friend by whom that 'notice had been given, re- plied that, unquestionably, if the Honourable Cap- 'tarn could not attend, the. motion could not be made. '. He did not feel himself justified. in postponing it to any precise 'day, . and .he would therefore leave it open for a future appointment. On the , motion of Mr. Ross it was ordered, that the lieuse. ;should to-morrow resolve itself into a Committee; to consider of the further encourage ment and regulation of the British White. Herring, Fi;heries. h . gr. ROSE obtained leave to bring in a Bill by . i ' ' HOUSE,' ()KC . OMMONS. . w s hich Briush ships captured by .the enemy, anti MONDAY, MAY .23. after Wardssagain. becoming 'British preperty, should . Al, new writ was'erdeted for the Borough of Rye- pot be,entitledt to the privileges of Brjtish ships: 'gate, in the roo of Lord 'Viscount Royston, de- The report of the Irish, IVlilitia Sersice Bill was cease room of . taken into further- consideration. The Amendments , .. 'Mr.Camobell presented a Petition from the Chant- were agreed to, and tit% Bill was ordered to be read ber,of COm(nerce at Glasgow, in favour of the Re. a 64.4 tame to-morrows' port of the Committee on the 1./isttllatiou from Su. - The se-cond reading of Land Revenue Bill' was ' . gar.—Referred to the Committee on Ihe Report. ; „ postpo,ted mil to-morrow ; end the Committal of 'l'he Irish Fees of Assize Biil went though a Coln- • The Land Tax CotOIDISSiUnerSi Bill was postpon ed, to . . . mittee, the Resort of. which was ordered to, be re- ' l 34ollday next. , . • Cgived to-soprrow. 'The Stamp Doty Bill, and the S co tch Hare-Shoot.. Chi the motional Mr. HUSKISSON, the House re. jug Bill 'were read a second time. The tormer was , . solveditself into a Coinmidee on the Act respectiog ordered to be cotunaittedon Monday next; the hit- Pilchards.; in, which, it was resolved to continue the ter tee-morrow. . ~,. bounty on the exportation.—The aspen was mitered moll' UXTIt At)RDINA RIES. to be received to-morrow. The Accounts of the Ariny Extraordinaries hay . CAl:swift.; PETITION. ing been rcierred to the Coolinittee of Suppty, the Mr. GRATTAN presented a PetitionPetitionfrom th e R o . House resolved itself into the Commit tse. • man Catholics of Ireland, praying to be relieved front On the motion of the CHANCIILL,)I4 of the Ex- the disabilities under winch they, at p.t . esent laboured. CHIMUER tile following autos were voted: The Petition .(which was of extraordinary dhow). For the Extraordinary seivn . e. or nit; Artily in Great ' sionS) was read by the Clerk. It stated the disquali- Britain, Hoyt Ore. 25.0 6, to Dec. 2 4 , 1807, ,cut proyutm tor by Pll.ll4lllent . ficationslo which the Catholics were subject, and Fejt :.tp . e sEraorcitnary Service of th - e Army - in Great 1471179 whiCh nothing in ttieir conduit required should lie- ft-Oteteifhor, for-year'soo4- ---....-- •_ . - .. , :z i g se : ol , 4 ,o , continued • and 'expressed their anxious wish so Fo i r a . l t t t l ie t, t i - r s t i l isl ea tA r n,v i r I"VICCII Of the Army in Ire. .., . be allowed ' an opportunity, by a release troin ttio,e For toe Itcp:24; in ficatty Vil''s• Chapel, On the . " 40 " disabilities, to shew their loyalty to their Sovereign, ' month , or Mr,-Fynes , . .. . . . - ' 1000 and ,atetheit - hirs:rut to their country, in the presems . . The -House having been resumed, . the Report was important crisis of public affairs ; a crisis which ordered to be received to-morrow.; . . called for the 'united energies of all. the inhabitants Mr. 1 - livattssort brought up the Orders in Coun of the Empire.-. Ordered to lie on the table. ell 8,11 Amendment Bill.—Read a first time, and .., 4 ; Air. 6RATTAN . gave notice that on Wednesday he Ordered to'be read a second time on Wednesday. Wtsitt & id move tdreter,the Petition to a Committee of .' Mr." - WHARTON brotiglit up the Report of the . . -thti whole House. - 'Copper Duty Bill. The Bill was ordered to.‘ be re . • Gee. MATHEW presented a Petitiou of a similar - e'ommitted to-morrow. .naiure, from the Roman Catholic's in Typerary, • Mr. HUSKISSON save notice of a MotiOn for to!. .' Ordered to lie on the table. ' . morrow eespetting the Continissioners for Auditing Mr. LETIIIIRIDOE brought up a Bill to secure to Public AcComits. John Palmer, Esq. a per ceutage oil thenet revenne t , , -pt s - t •ti.t.Arrt()N FRONI SUGAR: of. the Post-Otlice, ~., . o. Read a first , . trine; ordered ' ' The following Gentlemen presented Petitions to be printed, and to be read a second time on .agitinst the Report of the Committee on the Dis- ,1 '.tillitll'oiLiroisn Sugar : Thursday, . . , Mr. Rosa brought up a Bill to repeal Certain Aels -.. 'Mr;Titoßsirosr from certain owners and occu relating to the Woollen Minotadere.—Read a first piers of land in the County of Surrey ; time. . . 1.. . . MI : . COKE from certain' owners - .and occupiers of ' Mr. Rosti, observing that the Bill went to atreet tr , ~. . . . c was therefore de- - c . • land in the County of Norfolk ; • .' - ' . , olottel BULLOCK from Certain owners ind occu great body of people, anti that h . iirous it should be dilly considered, proposed that it „piers of Lind in the neighbourhood of Colchester; '.. _Admiral HARVEY' from certain ,wirers and Occu slipuld be,read a second time to morrow se'linight. .4-Ordered, and that the Bill should be printed., , piers of land in the' neighbourhood of Rumford. PILOTS' BILL. .The - Order of the Day having been read for the .'••- Mr. CAMPBELL presented a petition from certain Hoare to go into a Committee on the Report of 'the inhabitants of Dover against the Pilots' Bill.—Ors., , Corifmittee rolative to the Distillation from Sugar, tiered. tolie on,t he table: Lord 'BINNING moved, that the Speaker should , On the motion of Mr. Rosa, the How then went leave the-Chair. into.a Committee on the Pilots' Bill. ' . . Mr. Cm as could not let pass - this opportunity of Mr. Rose proposed several arneodinenta to the opposing 'i measure which was fraught with so Much • Bill, and contended, in opposition to the Petition Mischiet to the country. He contrasted thespeeclies • that had just been presented, that unless this Bill on a late evening of the two Chancellors at the Ex- were adapted, all the prior regulations that had .been chequer. From that of the Irish Chancellor of the made with respell to Pilots would be rendered nu- '.F,setititier he had ' derived the greatest . pleasure, gatory. The number of Pilots at present, as by law - and he believed that a • more solid and a more established, Was not greater' thau it was a century , constitutional speech •bad. never been made in that ago, 'viz'; l2ti, while in - that period British shipping' . House; - but the speech of the English Chancellor had increSecl three-fold, and foreign shipping ten of the Exchequer was full of erroneous statements told. During the last year twenty ships Went on and illusory reasoning. •He liad declared that corn shore in the Downs, and twenty more were lost for was at a high price, "hat a scarcity was to be appre, want of Pilots. Flis - first impression was to add sixty ' !tended, and that to prohibit the distillation would to the existing number; nevertheless, lie did not remedy, the dreaded esti. All these assertions he' propose .at present, as was stated hy• the Petition, , (Mr. Caike) absolutely denied. Corn was not at a to augment the number. This might become a ' ':higher price than that which mould afford the SubjeCt'.of consideration on the recommitment of the' :ISarmera fair and moderate remuneration for hid la *. -- , . • -, - bour. , There was a prospeel'of an abundant bar— ' :tOrd,HENBY PETTY wog desirous that the House .vest. How dangerous was it then' to hold out to affould l)e in possession of some documents upon.this the public a danger which• did not exist.; and for sublet% As 'it was, he was incapable of judging [ which.therefore there ,was no occasion to provide. whether, the 'losses Mentioned by the Right 1 - 101). a remetlyseven were the remedy proposed applies- Gentleman might not lie' attributable rather to'the ble to the•case, which it was not.- -. In support .of• ignorance of the Pilots than to the insufficiency of j these -opinions, he referred to the Report 'of the, their numbers. ' ~ Corn:altree, and read extra6ts from the ,minutes 'Mr. Rosa had never heard any complaints of the 01,. 01; evidence given, by Mr.,, Chambers, Mr. inadequacy of the Pilots to fulfil; the important duties St;elt. Mr. Kent, &e. r rbese Gentlentett declar entrusted to theta. -• . . . - ed, thai they, saw no reason ,fisr the ttsterferepee ' A long and desultory conversation ensued, in of Parliameut, which would cause [ an alarm that Which Mr, Kendrick, Mr. •I'ierney, Mr. Campbell", might create the very evil which s that interfer- Mr.Jenkinson, Sir W. Curtis, Mr. Huskisson, and Sir . enet was . intended to avert.--In` the county of , c , ',. pole, participated. 'On the one h a nd ; it was cons :LNorfolk •partieuLarly, the discouragement of the tended, that an augmentation of the number of pi- 'llPgro•stir o f b ar l e y, which a prohibition must ,cause, kts was unnecessary, and that it equld be inteuded -WOuld occasion great ails. . rhe si f ittintion of bar- Ciffly to - serve electioneerinz purposes ; on the other, ley was, almost necessary to t he essistente of that , re it WAS maintained, the incase of the number .county iNo grain could be substituted for it with i 'was indlipensible,. and that the idea of any effeet - : success, as oat stubble would not produce the .quan being produced on au eh:aloft, in a place WIIOI4 thari i tits I ced Of til d e barley stubble would`; nor would Mr. John Hughes was exathined on the part of the Lady, respeding two letters. The furthdr ex strilhation of wiineSses•was postponed to Wednes day;w4-Adjournetl. it feed the rtnint , er of shfvp, For thee ptts , ...' very togrot With ttr: iniportanoz 4 he was'deeply teapresQed, die should t o o 1.. t A duty, to. oppose this measure in etory sta ge, sht t uld theretore vote agaiuit the Spratter's leavi;:g the Chair. , ~.. Mr. ROSE would wish the mouse to tAte, n this', question tipon o a natell,wi . cler ground . t hap the Hon:. Gentlemen who opposed it seemed to 'o. That fh4 West India. Piaetets had made out theft ease noborir vi ho react the Report could deny.' It appeired from thiat that • seveVal 'estates in Jamaica had been :Mtn- ' donecL and that others Were:likely to be abandoned" unless, some relief were afforded to, the Colonial trade.. It should wit : be, forgotterirthat the West India possessiottiol,,this.Country yielded an income of between eight and nine millions, spent in this Country, that the Revenue,:in Cristoms, Fitici•.e, Me., - on West flldipfl t .prOlie,t; A 41 . 110Uifie ' cl ol fits titillion's and a JuillAtentailys o}:s the West Indian trade employed' oneAbird of theSr'eping of e he. Court- try,; and that . Ar't islt tuatmfaifures to Ale amonnt of six milli3Ons, were consintned in the West Indian market. :When the cointnitteo had been first ari- pointed,,, he .had apprehensions that it the landed - - - Gentlemen took a narrow iiew"of the qiiestiol it ' would not be easy to caret' the Measure into ,effect.• - .Butas he did' not huptne the eppositiim of t tieso- Gentlemen to any narrow views of advantage to themselves, lie was ztot without hope 'that they would vie•N the Matter in another light, and 'that, a provision to . prirhibit the dis illation from cord Jill Ott; ley shold- sink to ,a 4 given ;trio.,, rind men to ' allow it to be used in distilleries till it rose to a cs-re '' - . 'I tie - ons'd • A • F e i f . tam price, I.voii.i , .1 ere.. as a sti,..e.en, recu t rity for theft interests, and induce them to ail:lie:A:a in the ine.isure., , ThiX.Wds their best mode of re lieving the West India, merchants, whom every body allowed to, he in a situation requiring relief: — No person,tiut the Late Chancellor of 'the Excheqtier tbr Ireland IttO suggested any other remedy, viz, by loci ering thedoties on sugar ; I.nit that Right Hon, Baronet must have Won, aWard-that the last addition of three shillings per cwt.. had beenlaid on by the late Administration. 'About 400,900 quarters tit` . , malt. were consumed in the distilleries and three millions and a half in the breweries, and if it were not for the iinproitemebt in science, the quantity of barley consumed in the breweries would, be double what it is. It appeared that this Country, import ed to the au:taunt of 700,000 quarters of corn an-. , ' nually ; attic, though Ile thanked God that he had no - -s: apprehensions Of. a scarcity, yet he thought they 'Aught, to be apprehensive Of the rise that might take . place in the price of brt:ad. A Right iron. Gentle man' oppOsite , (Mr. G. Punsonby)" bad said, on a ,coroner 0,00, that this,rneasure w-uld be a violation of the tarot Of, Vhicint,. miti . th:lt they ought run, un der Vie temptation of an immediate convenience, to suspend4te,pro% uioils of that AO. "No man more anxiously than himself wished that 'the Articles' of Union between the two Countries shomd be pr— ' served'erom viola ion,' so' 'tar as the pi inet,,les , i good faith required ; ' but why was it necess-iry *0 Adhere io the letter of these Articles itiai i kpos (too to a measure of great public utility ? All that was askqd of Ireland was, thatat a' period of great dist o d a to a valuable part of his Majesty's ,subjects, tA hilst ' this Country,, with a ‘iew to 04,4 relief, snspe:tded the distillation trorri corn, trelanititionld sus,,, ed its exports of spirts to this CoUptry. The Right Ron. Gentleman then recapitulated his various arguments, and concluded with expressing a hope that the naca i sure,'in the guarded: shape he had suggested, would I be acceded to. .• . Sir W. W. WYNI4E alloWed the distress:of the West India Planters and Merchants, ant would ready tagiye. them 'chef in any other way thanAliiss• 'He had suggested for that purpose a redalion of•the duty on 'such sugar as should be employed ih the feeding of cattle: But whilst he was anxious to afford relief tolheWest Indies, he coilId• not coOent to such a nwaiure as the present, which would preps• exclusively on the landed interest. Why bud the measure been brought forward At the present nn, • Inent;, when the distilleries would .of cours4 cease working till Otti9ber ? The present price of, bar - ley. was.not extraordinary, considering the ihortheqs Uf the last crop. For tlie36 reasons - he should Opt 04 the Speaker's'l9ving the Chair. Mr.l3SalinSE, both for brevity and pertpieuiip, proposed to consider the question in ,three points of view : Ist, as a questions purely domestic, which . would lead to an inquiry, whether the state - of the supply of corn in the Country rendered the measuee desiratiOe' as a "niedn's of preventing any possible scarcity:: ?ndly, as a question purely tmloni3l; and how far the situation of the colonies was such as to require timely and effeetual relief, as well as how tr this measure was , desirable for that purpose ; aod .3dly, as a question of general import, including boitt 'domestic and colonial views, andleadingto.an in quiry, whether the proposed measure was (mita:dated to promote the general interests.of the Empire. Ai: to the first view in which he "%vas to consider. the question, he was aware of the delicacy of the' sub. oft, whenever the extent of the supply of corn in the Country was made the'stibjeti cat a discussion in that House, and thus though a.titlie alarm upon thi s Mead might be dangerous, a false security would he fatal. This subjea was not brought forward by the' friend's of the present measure, bpi by those %vitt.* opposed it, ; who called evidence to prove the danger hti scarcity, not knowing that by so doing they were_ cutting the ground Aereon they stood.from utWer thetw- • Whilst 700,000 quarters of corn were mt. ported an nnally,i , tlo)anded-Gentlemen expi essed no apprehension of the result; but the' moment that imporiatiOn wai'etif 6(440 a part of the supply' was , . to be deriVedlrom the prod ice •of the West India Islands, they, were.all alarm and, apprehension. Tire chief import was in wheat and oats, and not in bar. ley g it followed therefore, that the crop and the consumption Were uniformly cleat, and as a ed by 'the evidence of Messrs. Young and Wake. field, that 'thel,6l crop catOrley Wil)4 short, one or two alternative's must follow ; either the detivietiee of the crop must be supplied by importatoo, or tins consuinpeen must be , It ti.e tbriner were the cias, then it wouici be no meter whillwr the import' Avas.ifitrn any ()OKA' Couilliy, or trm the WesA Indies; .i the coilsentrion vvl ; i then' this . measure ix as to diminish the' consumption. But it had been 'said, thit the Fleet was the tninjinn by which to jotAiie of the propos - - 'tion between the supply and the tleottnct ; anti if the question Was taken tiOctri any broad ground, IN wan could deny that tta3 pri 4o wou ld b e a